e martë, shkurt 22, 2005

Adaptation of Oriented and Unoriented Color-Selective Neurons in Human Visual Areas

How specialized are the separable neural pathways that support perception? A long debate has concerned whether neurons that encode color also encode aspects of shape, such as orientation. In this paper, Engel shows that the color pathways include large numbers of unoriented and oriented neurons and that both these populations are important for color perception. Thus, the color pathways also encode information about form, but this does not make them less specialized for color perception.

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